Think tanks in Europe: Rising, Peaking, or Declining?
Growing in number, but what about influence?
The number of think tanks in Brussels has risen sharply over the last years [7]. The European Commission’s Bureau of European Policy Advisers (BEPA) [8] related the recent growth and development of the Brussels think tank environment to the growing significance of the EU capital as a centre for policy formulation. With its intense concentration of policy-makers, businessmen, lobbyists, as well as the media, only Washington D.C. compares to Brussels as a place where think tanks fundraise, network, disseminate ideas, shape and influence political debates. The Europe for Citizens Programme, for instance, suggests that think tanks are “invaluable in providing visions for the future, as well (...)&nbspLire la suite